Bio

Wim Sweldens is a scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from KU Leuven and spent a decade at Bell Labs, where he invented the wavelet lifting scheme, later adopted in the JPEG 2000 and MPEG 4 standards and widely used in 3D graphics. His work helped establish digital geometry processing, and he contributed to space‑time coding for wireless systems.

He went on to lead ventures and run the wireless division at Alcatel‑Lucent, where he directed the lightRadio cell‑tower program. In 2013 he co‑founded Kiswe, an interactive live‑streaming company whose technology has carried the Olympics, the NBA, and global artists such as BTS. He has been an entrepreneur‑in‑residence at Columbia and an advisor at Purdue.

He is a guest professor in artificial intelligence at KU Leuven and a member of both the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He lives between New York and Belgium.

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